WESTERN BUREAU: Senior clergyman Reverend Dr Howard Gregory is urging Christians to resist the temptation from elected officials to trample and smear the integrity of the Auditor General’s Department and the Integrity Commission. Gregory said...

Earlier this month, Jamaica’s Taino chief, Kasike Kalaan Nibonrix Kaiman, gave a presentation titled, ‘Stories as medicine: Taino and African Healing and the Environment in Jamaica’, at Northeastern University, a private university with its main...

The Jamaica Olympic Ice Hockey Federation has confirmed that the senior men’s team will be playing in the Challenger Series of three tournaments April to July 2024. This series involves round robin matches against Puerto Rico and Lebanon, who...

The role of technology in higher education has become more crucial now than ever, says Minister of Education and Youth Fayval Williams. Addressing the opening ceremony for St Joseph’s Teachers’ College’s Research Day 2024 in Kingston on Tuesday,...

Twenty young people will be presented with the 2023 Prime Minister’s National Youth Award for Excellence (PMNYAE) for achievements in various fields, at a ceremony scheduled for April 20 on the lawns of Jamaica House, starting at 5 p.m. The award...

Customers of the National Water Commission (NWC) served by the Constant Spring facility in St Andrew are being advised to prepare for water supply regulations come Monday. The NWC says while it has sought to keep 24/7 operations at its...

A man who was held with ganja valued at US$2 million or approximately J$300 million has been fined a total of J$1.5 million after pleading guilty to drug charges. Dwayne Dewar was fined $1 million for dealing in marijuana and $500,000 for...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, says significant progress has been made with the publishing of names of the members of the Transitional Presidential Council for Haiti. The names of the members were...

A police constable is undergoing treatment at hospital for injuries he sustained during a robbery at a business establishment on Constant Spring Road in St Andrew on Wednesday. The Half-Way Tree police say about 11:20 a.m., the policeman...

Opposition spokesperson on information and public communication, Nekeisha Burchell, wants the Government to urgently implement a social media policy with «stringent guidelines» for public officials. The call, made in a media release on...

A popular medical doctor in Spanish Town, St Catherine has been arrested by the police as part of its ongoing investigation into the Clansman Gang. Twenty-two alleged members of the gang have already been arrested and are currently before the Home...

A fourth man has been charged in connection with a robbery at a bar in Fine Grass, Manchester. Thirty-three-year-old labourer Jamie Campbell, otherwise called 'Bad', of Hopewell district in the parish, has been charged with conspiracy to...

A St Catherine mother and daughter were on Tuesday each fined $350,000 or 30 days' imprisonment in the parish court for stealing electricity. The mother, Miriam Jones, and her daughter Angela Batchelor pleaded guilty to abstracting...

A freak accident on Tuesday evening claimed the life of a motorcyclist and resulted in the injury of his common-law partner after the biker was attacked by dogs, causing him to crash into an oncoming vehicle. The incident occurred along the Rock...

The Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools wants the Ministry of Education to provide institutions with increased funding given the harsh economic climate. The association's president Linvern Wright told The Gleaner that the...

Education Minister Fayval Williams today revealed that her Ministry is investigating another private facility that caters to foreign children in Jamaica. Williams made the disclosure while responding to questions at this morning's post-Cabinet...

Principal of Steer Town Academy in St Ann, Sharn Mangol, and exam coordinator, Andre Yeeshui, are to step down from their posts following a probe into a massive Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examination fraud at the school. Members of the...

People's National Party (PNP) constituency representative for St Catherine East Central, Raymond Pryce, has bashed a controversial social media post by Member of Parliament and Junior State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ...

The JamaicaEye Programme has been boosted by a donation of 215 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras by the Government of the Republic of Korea. Delivering the keynote address at the handover of the devices at his New Kingston offices on Tuesday...

Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Alando Terrelonge says a member of his team was responsible for posting a photo to his Instagram account with images of former Prime Ministers PJ Patterson and Portia Simpson Miller covered. Terrelonge has faced...

Personnel from the police's Area 3 Narcotics on Tuesday seized an estimated 4,000 pounds of ganja during an operation in Nain. No one was arrested. The police say the ganja has a street value of $40 million. They say the drug bust was destroyed...

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Francine Phillips-Kelly, the medical officer of health for St James, is advising that the monitoring of mosquito-breeding sites remains the personal responsibility of homeowners. Phillips-Kelly gave the reminder while addressing...

Newly installed Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby has promised greater collaboration with players in the booming local real estate sector, but warned that they must conform to Jamaica’s building and planning laws. “At the KSAMC, we know that we cannot...

Fenley Douglas, councillor for the Waterford division, in Portmore, has taken aim at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), criticising its management of personnel during last Wednesday’s Portmore municipal council general meeting...

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Pearnel Charles Sr sprung a surprise visit on former Clerk to the Houses Valrie Curtis days before her retirement at Gordon House in Kingston. Curtis became Clerk to the Houses while Charles was the...

“HER STRONG work ethic, sound organisational skills and keen attention to detail saw her being elevated to the position of clerk to the Houses in 2021, and since that time she has commendably led her staff in providing the necessary procedural and...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles Jr, says the employment code of practice for persons with disabilities has been drafted. The Minister explained that the Disabilities Act makes provision for the Jamaica Council for Persons...

The Hanover police seized an AK 47 rifle with a magazine containing nine rounds of ammunition on Tuesday. The police say they were on operation in Mount Pellier, Sandy Bay, Hanover, about 3:48 p.m., when the seizure was made. No one was taken into...

The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) has issued an advisory to farmers, warning them to be on drought alert and put in place alternative water sources for on-farm activities. In the advisory it noted that February to April is the...

The man who was wanted for the slaying of a policeman in St Ann on Monday was shot and killed by the police in the parish on Tuesday, sources have revealed. He has been identified by law enforcement officials as Siraldo Butler, also known as Sirri...

Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie is calling for the public to cease illegal electricity connections arising from today's injury of six firefighters who were responding to a house fire in Greenwich Town, St Andrew. The firefighters...

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has welcomed the fall in headline inflation for March. Data released by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) on Monday indicate that the 12-month point-to-point inflation (March 2023 to March 2024) was 5.6 per...

Faced with what is shaping up to be severe drought conditions, the National Water Commission (NWC) is regulating supply to some communities in the eastern section of St Mary and its environs, while increasing the trucking of water. The move by the...

A man was fined $70,000 or 30 month's imprisonment in the St Catherine Parish Court today for slashing the tyres of a man who reneged on an agreement to pay him following an accident. Michael Mitchell, who pleaded guilty to malicious...

Three educators at Steer Town Academy in St Ann, including Principal Sharn Mangol, are expected to know their fates this afternoon following a disciplinary hearing arising from a probe into an alleged massive Caribbean Examinations Council (...